The Democratic primary has been decided, according to the AP. Speaking with anonymous superdelegates, party insiders, and donors, they’ve calculated and announced that Clinton has already won.
It’s a strange move to go out of one’s way to declare a candidate the winner on the day before a major primary. Superdelegates don’t vote until the convention, and the DNC had reminded the media, but the AP has called it anyway.
Clinton and Trump are the official choices in the coming election. Both are the best each party will offer.
This will not be an election about a positive vision for the future. This will be about why the other is no good.
Uniquely awful in their own distinct ways (and especially so to their opponents,) the two major candidates will likely treat voters to months of reasons why the other candidate is the devil and their election will lead to the end of civilization as we know it.
The election of the other must be stopped! The other candidate is no good!
What if they are both right?
What if they are both wrong?
If Trump is elected, the country will clearly be in danger, right? World War III would be an insult or two away from getting underway, and no one would join our defense with Trump at the helm. Trump could very well get fed up and quit partway through his term. “I don’t need this crap…” Or Congress would regain a spine and find a way to put him under lock and key for the remainder of his term.
If Clinton is elected, the right wing will continue to block her at every move and nothing will get done, right? Her impeachment hearings begin about an hour after taking office. She’ll err on the side of being too tough in world affairs, and she will continue favors to Wall Street.
I don’t like these two choices at all. They both seem wrong for the world we live in and the problems we are facing. Both seem like pampered, privileged out-of-touch wealthy people with personal agendas or long lists of favors-owed. And neither seems to show any desire to get anything of substance accomplished. I hear campaign slogans. I don’t see real passion for what is being discussed.
Back to the silly AP story. Using the same methodology to declare Clinton the Democratic nominee, the AP could go ahead and call the election in November before we vote. It would save us all a lot of trouble to go with the new Orwellian system of telling us how we voted ahead of time.
What is it AP? Who has already won in November? Call it!
The Holy Cult of Clinton
This fanatical need of not only the press but her own campaign and all her many cult like followers who couldn’t wait to fill up their FB pages today with sighs of relief that “it was over’ and indignant cries and demands for Bernie to just go away is really getting on my one last nerve. They act as though Sanders is committing some heinous crime by staying in the primary contest until it’s actually done. That’s his right. Nobody has won anything.
I continue to be amazed that the Clinton camp is so slow to realize that Bernie’s supporters are not just going to meekly cross over to Clinton’s side. She has made no attempt to woo or entice his very sizable camp of supporters. Maybe she feels she doesn’t need them. She has already won, after all. I’ve spent several presidential elections voting for the lesser of two evils when my preferred candidate either didn’t win or had the election stolen from them. I’m not going to do it this year. I’m so sick of hearing all the adulation and worship for Clinton; hearing how she will change things for the “little people”. Anyone who doesn’t have enough common sense to forego wearing a $12,000 piece of clothing while she’s talking about how she’ll fight against the inequality in the US is not going to change anything for anyone but her rich Wall Street buddies and her millionaire donors. She’s a fake. Haven’t we had plenty of those already?
The Worst Ever
I’m reserving candidate judgment til after the conventions. But I must say this is the worst election cycle I’ve ever seen. If I could, I’d leave this country. But nobody wants an old gimp, I’ve searched.
Evil K-weevil
Neither Democrat Reaches 2383 Yet
Delegates
Clinton -2,184
Sanders – 1,804
Needed for nomination – 2,383
Neither Democrat has enough yet. (Trump has 1,536 of a needed 1,237. He has enough.)
Superdelegates vote at convention.
Shattering America?
I just
received an email suggesting that a Trump presidency could bolster movements
leading to secession and ultimately the breakup of the USA. The mail referred
to an existing group in Vermont promoting a Second Vermont Republic, and
another group promoting an Independent Libertarian Republic in New Hampshire (an offshoot of
the Free State Movement).
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/How-Bernie-Sanders-can-still-become-president-7969545.php
Trump
has some strong supporters. However, there is also strong opposition. Could it
coalesce? What could be the consequences?
the Mexicans will build a Wall to keep Trump out of California!
the only wall the Mexicans will build is one to keep Donald Trump out of California. Californians have long talked secession. They have 37 million people and a long coastline. They have the bread basket of the nation.
They have the movie industry and Lockheed Martin. They are probably out there tonight in the desert baking bricks to make a wall to keep Trump out!
to contemplate
Just had a fun thought. Imagine an election season that ends up like Bush Gore – so close it goes to the Supreme Court for a ruling. The court splits 50-50. What then?
Lost in the media mire for a very, very long time
It’s not likely there will be a breakup of the US.
No secessionist movement in any state will be popular enough to sway any legislature, especially Vermont where referendum is prohibited by the legislature.
The moment any candidate assumes POTUS, they face the Congress. No matter how many times me or anyone tells readers that it’s the Congress, not the presidency, that matter, this commercial supernbowl election captures the imagination of the this media-celebrity-crazed people and there is nothing anyone can do about that.
A third party could alter the outcome too close to call, and if the election is thrown to the Supreme Court or the Congress it would, as Chris suggest, be fun, and certainly lively more than now. This country desperately needs a steady diet of entertainment.
We will stay lost in the media mire for a very, very long time.
As always, nonvoters don’t count, but they also get to enjoy the show, if they want.
don't ask, don't tell
A breakup into regions would probably be better for everyone but it is unlikely.
If all non-voters worked together, they could sway any election, and win any office.
Shhh! Don’t tell the major media.
Good God!
This has to be one of the creepiest pictures I’ve ever seen.
Leahy has super delegate votes & he hasn't agreed to debate me
US Senator Patrick Leahy holds some of the super delegate votes that would hand the Presidency to Hillary Clinton (who does not have enough pledged delegate votes to win without adding super delegate votes to her total).
US Senator Patrick Leahy is running against me as a Democratic candidate for US Senate in the Vermont statewide primary election Aug. 9, 2016.
https://www.sec.state.vt.us/media/757630/2016-statewide-primary-qualified-candidates.pdf
SENATOR LEAHY HAS NOT YET AGREED TO EVEN ONE CANDIDATE DEBATE OR FORUM WITH ME BEFORE THE PRIMARY ELECTION AUG. 9TH.
Cris Ericson
http://www.crisericson.com
Told you so...
The ‘other candidate is no good’ is now a big story in the NYTimes….
“Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Call Each Other Unfit for Presidency”
“With their nomination contests finally locked up, Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump sought to rev up their core supporters on Friday during dueling speeches in which each cast the other as unfit for the presidency…”
(Anyone recall the acrobatic bugs from a Bugs Life? . “You’re no good. No, You’re no good!”)
Sucession or Starvation?
Other states maybe but Vermont succeed? Yeah right. It wouldn’t last a week after it unlatched from the mammary gland of the federal government.
Succeed?
Can it be that you mean “Secede?”